Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:48:40 -0000
> "dev1fanboy" <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:
>
>> Hopefully something will happen with it, personally I'd use grub but
>> it does some fancy stuff I'm not a fan of.
>
> Grub is the systemd of bootloaders. It's all about pretty colors, nice
> images, and hiding the fact that processes are being instantiated.
>
> What's so sad is that grub 1 was wonderful. One file, everything was
> easy and obvious. Grub2 has different but similar executables, and you
> go traipsing all over a tree of numbered files to change every little
> thing, or else unauthorizedly change the already compiled version and
> hope nothing overrides it.

JFTR: Systemd comes with its own boot loader[*] (no big surprise) and both
grub1 and grub2 are (misguided) attempts at imitating a real firmware
console on a PC.

[*] Presumably, because the grub developers have (as far as I know) so
far refused to implement device re-ordering, hence, there's no excuse
for using 1024 character device names containing a random mix of
characters and numbers :->.